The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-18
Discipline at the University

O4SCAplAIlS dO Illt university.
There are those who censure the faculty
of the State University on account of re-
cent acts of some of the students. The CEN
sure is undeserved, because the acts in
question occurred outside of the facultys
jurisdiction, or they were unknown to the
faculty until after they occurred.
The most recent occasion for unwarranted
attacks upon the authorities of the univer-
sity is found in the case of a student who is
a member of the knights of Labor. It
seems that just previous to the municipal
election in Athens last winter this student
went to Rev. DR.. Nell, the chancellor. and
stated that he was poor and needed every
cent he could make to pay his expenses
at the university. He then asked for
leave of absence for thirty days,
saying that he had an opportunity of max
ing $50 The chancellor readily granted
the leave, and told the student that he
wished him success in his venture When
the student returned, the chancellor made
inquiries as to what kind of work he had
been engaged in, and learned that he had
sold his influence a. a member of the
in the municipal election for $50, and had
spent the thirty days leave given him in
driving around in a buggy with a negro and
a jug of whisky electioneering BY the adj
vice of the chancellor he was promptly ex-
PEELED.
This case furnishes no just reason for at
tacks upon the authorities of the university,
but, ON the contrary, it is cause for com
mending them The truth is, under the
administration Of the present chancellor,
the discipline at the university has been re
markedly good His plan of government
places the students on their honor as gentle
men, and it is not often that a case occurs
which demands punishment.
a white light shines upon the university
at all times, and this is the reason, perhaps,
why the faculty is so subject to criticism
1t is decidedly to the credit of both faculty
and students that it is rare that either can
lie justly blamed for breach of discipline
Tho Telegraph Operators Scheme.
1t is stated that the telegraph operators of
this country are almost unit in favor of
having the government purchase and oper-
ate the telegraph lines. They intend, it is
said, to petition the Fiftieth Congress to
take steps in that direction, and it is also
said that they viii submit plan which they
believe will remove whatever obstacles may
be in the way of the scheme.
1t may be true that the telegraph opera
tors desire the government to own the
telegraph lines and it may also be
true that they intend TO petition Congress to
purchase them but / is very doubtful that
they will be able to submit plan to accom-
plish that object that will be satisfactory
Two very serious obstacles suggest them
selves. One is that the owners of the lines
may not wish 70 sell If they should not,
Congress is not likely to force them to do so
The other obstacle is that the people
would object TO the creation of an
other army of ofiice-holderS, If
the government should purchase
the telegraph lines, of course every opera
tor would be an oflce-holder, not 10 men
ton the hundreds of superintendents, or
commissioners, who would be charged with
the management of the new branch of the
governments business. They would be a
very dangerous class Of oflice-holders, be-
cause, % a large extent, they would have an
intimate knowledge Of the business and per
sonal affairs Of the people, and It goes with
out saying that n the occasion presented
itself, many of them would use such knowl-
edge 81 advance their Interests with the
party which gave them office. The reported
scheme Is one that docs not deserve support.
There IL said o. hc d wonderful increase
ln leeullN1n in AlW York all ENnrA